is sentence was accordingly executed, and he appeared upon the scaffold
with a great deal of courage and christian composure, and died in much
assurance, and with a joy which none of his persecutors could
intermeddle with. It was affirmed by some, who were present at his
execution, that the scaffold or gibbet gave way and came down, which
made some present flatter themselves, that by some laws in being, he had
won his life (as they used to say in such cases). But behold a
disappointment here, for he behoved not to escape so (for to this end he
was born). Immediately all was reared up, and the martyr executed.

In his last testimony, which is inserted in the cloud of witnesses,
after a recital of many choice scripture texts, which had been
comforting and strengthening to him in the house of his pilgrimage, he
comes among other things in point of testimony, to say, "Now, my dear
friends in Christ, I have alway since the public resolutioners were for
bringing in the malignants, and their interest, thought it my duty to
join with the Lord's people, in witnessing against these sinful courses,
and now see clearly that it has ended in nothing less than the making us
captains, that we may return to Egypt by the open doors, that are made
wide to bring in popery, and set up idolatry in the Lord's covenanted
land, to defile it. Wherefore it is the unquestionable and indispensible
duty of all who have any love to God and to his son Jesus Christ, to
witness faithfully, constantly and conscientiously against all that the
enemies have done or are doing to the overthrow of the glorious work of
reformation, and banishing Christ out of these lands, by robbing him of
his crown rights.----And however it be, that many, both ministers and
professors, are turning their back upon Christ and his cause,
reproaching and casting dirt upon you and the testimony of the day. Yet
let not this weaken your hands, for I assure you it will not be long to
the fourth watch, and then he will come in garments dyed in blood, to
raise up saviours in mount Zion, and to judge the mount of Esau; and
then the cause of Jacob and Joseph shall be for fire, and the
malignants, prelates and papists, shall be for stubble; the flame
thereof shall be great: But my generation work being done with my time,
I go to him who loved me, and washed me from all my sins."

Then he goes on declaring, that he adhered to the scripture, confession
of faith, catechisms larger and shorter